Council Elections

[Martin Meredith]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:16 +0100, Joseph Price wrote:
> Announced at the latest ubuntu-irc meeting that we are going to be going
> through the process of electing some new council members.
> 
> The process I outlined at the meeting was only an idea, and I think I
> tried to put across the message that I would be writing it to this ML
> when decided on, including deadlines. (My fault if I didn't make this
> clear enough)
> 
> We're just talking with the CC atm to work out the finer details, and as
> soon as that's done, we'll post it here.
> 
> Finally, as I said at that meeting, please only nominate yourselves at
> this time. If you really want to nominate someone else, tell them, and
> get them to nominate themselves if they want to run for it. Comments on
> wiki pages/to email lists will then probably follow.
> 
> Pricey

Just a thought - isn#t the election procedure a bit broken?

I mean by having the line.

- The nominees support from at least one active IRC Council member
(essential) 

Isn't this a bit broken? what if for some reason, the whole Council
Quits?